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More flexible subtraction logic

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
rust
Domain
data

Research direction

Start by reading the subtraction logic discussed in the linked pull request, then locate its equivalent implementation in this repository. Determine how callers should select saturating-at-zero versus erroring behavior, and verify that both modes are covered by the relevant existing tests.

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Description

There are two reasonable things to do when subtracting a count that exceeds the minuend count: saturate at 0, or error. It would be nice to let the user do both.

See https://github.com/jonhoo/hdrsample/pull/34/files#diff-b4aea3e418ccdb71239b96952d9cddb6R558 for more context.

Dominant language
Rust
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373
Forks
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